Sunday 19 March 2017

Ronda to Palmones - 58 miles

Up during the night for Jamie being sick, which coincided anyway with Terry's usual nocturnal need! A bright warm sunny day and we enjoyed our usual Sunday breakfast, although we had to substitute a tin of bacon grill for bacon as we'd run out. We had decided to move on today – it's a very nice site but a tad expensive for us – but which way? Having learned that our friends June and Derek were returning to Spain today do we backtrack and meet up with them or carry on into Portugal, which was our original plan.

So cleared up, serviced the van, paid our dues and at the exit do we turn left for Portugal or right for Algeciras? We turned right knowing that we could still head into Portugal if we wanted and anyway it was such a nice run up on Friday it should be equally as nice going the other way. And it was so an hour and a half later we were parked up outside the Mercadona supermarket at Palmones, which is currently being renovated so nobody will be using their car park for the next few days.

We had received several emails with D & J's progress but not expecting them until late afternoon after lunch we drove round to the car wash at Carrefour and gave Bertie a thorough wash down. Then just as we were pulling out, so D & J came up behind us, having got away earlier than they had thought. So back round to the parking and a lovely couple of hours catching up before tea.

Not having visited Morrisons earlier in the week we thought that now that the weather had settled down we'd give it another try, a plan which also suited Derek and June, so tomorrow we'll go round to the aire at La Linea then walk/bus into Gib.